DOUBT is not the farthest removed point from belief. The trouble is not that men will doubt—it is often as much the part of wisdom to doubt as to accept—but that doubt, long entertained, leads one out of its thin ether into the boundless vacuity of Nihilism. The first thing the scientific doubter does is to settle his doubts by investigation and the application of all the means of information at his command. The first duty of the religious doubter is to settle his doubts so far as he can, and he can do much if he will. Whether Christ was what he claimed to be—the world's Redeemer; whether the Bible is a revelation of God to the human soul; whether man is a sinner in need of forgiveness; whether on the lower plane of the simpler moralities there is any system at all comparable with the Christian system, or any life comparable with the Christ life, are matters easily to be determined by the candid seeker after truth. But if man holds to a spurious philosophy in his right hand, and expects to grasp Religion in the left, he need not be surprised if she refuse the companionship and eludes his grasp. Before the earnest, sincere soul, Religion places her truths in clear, white light, that they may be seen as they are. The man who approaches her with colored glass will find them colored to his eye, as everything else is. But still they stand forth, resplendent in whiteness. The matchless colors of a summer sunset exist not in the far-off clouds, but in a little membrane in the eye. So God appears to the spiritual eye; to an eye distorted and chromatic, the divine attributes will appear vain, confused and inchoate. The froward man esteems God froward; the cruel man talks of the cruelty of the Christian's God. To the loving and upright, God appears as he is, the Essence of Love and Righteousness.—Christian at Work.